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Saved from the grave : Neolithic to Saxon discoveries at Spring Road Municipal Cemetery, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 1990-2000 / T.G. Allen and Z. Kamash with contributions by Leigh Allen ... [and others] ; illustrations by Peter Lorimer ... [and others] ; [summarised and edited by Chris Hayden].
Penn Museum Library DA690.A14 A443 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, T. G. (Tim G.), 1955-
- Series:
- Thames Valley landscapes monograph ; no. 28.
- Thames Valley landscapes monograph ; no. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spring Road Municipal Cemetery (Abingdon, England).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Abingdon.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Iron age--England--Abingdon.
- Iron age.
- Anglo-Saxons--England--Abingdon.
- Anglo-Saxons.
- Abingdon (England)--Antiquities, Celtic.
- Abingdon (England).
- Abingdon (England)--Antiquities, Roman.
- England--Abingdon.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 106 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University School of Archaeology for Oxford Archaeology, [2008]
- Summary:
- Excavations at Spring Road Municipal Cemetery, Abingdon, Oxfordshire have revealed activity extending from the Mesolithic to the Saxon period. The most significant discovery was an arc of substantial postholes which formed part of one of very few middle Bronze timber circles known in southern Britain. The most important earlier evidence was a Beaker burial containing a copper awl which is amongst the earliest metal artefacts from Britain. Mesolithic flint, an oval Peterborough Ware bowl and a Grooved Ware pit were also found. A group of three middle Iron Age crouched inhumation burials are amongst the most interesting later finds, which included also an early-middle Iron Age roundhouse, a Roman field system and Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured buildings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780954962760
- 0954962761
- OCLC:
- 269433230
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